LAKEWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER

Special Focus Facility candidate · CMS abuse icon · Los Angeles · CA · For profit - Corporation · PACIFIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS chain · 290 certified beds · CCN 555099 · THE HEALTHCARE CENTER OF DOWNEY LLC


LAKEWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER operates 290 certified beds in DOWNEY, California. Its Medicare and Medicaid certification dates to 1978-08-01. It averages 281.2 residents a day.

What harm was found in the violations cited at LAKEWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER?

CMS lists 125 health-inspection deficiencies for LAKEWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER, all of them in the three years to 2026-08-01: the highest scope-and-severity letter on record is J; the most recent health inspection was 2026-06-08.

Survey dateTagDeficiencySeverity
2026-06-08F0656, F0689Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.D
2026-04-28F0557Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions.D
2026-01-28F0580, F0697Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. / Provide safe, appropriate pain management for a resident who requires such services.E
2026-01-28F0656Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.D
2026-01-09F0604Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment.D
2025-12-31F0689Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.D
2025-12-18F0688, F0689Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason. / Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.G
2025-12-18F0583Keep residents' personal and medical records private and confidential.F
2025-12-18F0684, F0726, F0755, F0802, F0804, F0805, F0812, F0912Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. / Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being. / Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. / Provide sufficient support personnel to safely and effectively carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service. / Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature. / Ensure each resident receives and the facility provides food prepared in a form designed to meet individual needs. / Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. / Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.E
2025-12-18F0558, F0561, F0584, F0600, F0641, F0656, F0692, F0759, F0760, F0849, F0880, F0914, F0919, F0941Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. / Honor the resident's right to and the facility must promote and facilitate resident self-determination through support of resident choice. / Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. / Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody. / Ensure each resident receives an accurate assessment. / Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Provide enough food/fluids to maintain a resident's health. / Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. / Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. / Arrange for the provision of hospice services or assist the resident in transferring to a facility that will arrange for the provision of hospice services. / Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. / Provide bedrooms that don't allow residents to see each other when privacy is needed. / Make sure that a working call system is available in each resident's bathroom and bathing area. / Develop, implement, and/or maintain an effective training program that includes effective communications for direct care staff members.D
2025-12-18F0911Ensure resident rooms hold no more than 4 residents; for new construction after November 28, 2016, rooms hold no more than 2 residents.B
2025-08-28F0842Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.D
2025-08-27F0656, F0695Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed.D
2025-07-31F0605Prevent the use of unnecessary psychotropic medications or use medications that may restrain a resident's ability to function.E
2025-07-30F0658Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.D
2025-07-16F0656, F0689Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.D
2025-07-08F0580, F0600Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. / Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.D
2025-06-24F0550, F0657, F0658Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. / Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. / Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.D
2025-06-13F0689Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.J
2025-06-13F0658Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.D
2025-05-09F0689Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.D
2025-04-21F0656Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured.D
2025-04-16F0657Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals.D
2025-03-17F0609, F0684Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. / Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals.D
2025-02-20F0689, F0755Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. / Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist.D
2025-02-04F0684, F0698, F0842Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. / Provide safe, appropriate dialysis care/services for a resident who requires such services. / Safeguard resident-identifiable information and/or maintain medical records on each resident that are in accordance with accepted professional standards.D
2024-11-07F0580, F0584Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. / Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely.D
2024-10-04F0558, F0584, F0656, F0686, F0688, F0690, F0695, F0755, F0759, F0760, F0761, F0802, F0803, F0804, F0812, F0814, F0880, F0912Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. / Honor the resident's right to a safe, clean, comfortable and homelike environment, including but not limited to receiving treatment and supports for daily living safely. / Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Provide appropriate pressure ulcer care and prevent new ulcers from developing. / Provide appropriate care for a resident to maintain and/or improve range of motion (ROM), limited ROM and/or mobility, unless a decline is for a medical reason. / Provide appropriate care for residents who are continent or incontinent of bowel/bladder, appropriate catheter care, and appropriate care to prevent urinary tract infections. / Provide safe and appropriate respiratory care for a resident when needed. / Provide pharmaceutical services to meet the needs of each resident and employ or obtain the services of a licensed pharmacist. / Ensure medication error rates are not 5 percent or greater. / Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors. / Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. / Provide sufficient support personnel to safely and effectively carry out the functions of the food and nutrition service. / Ensure menus must meet the nutritional needs of residents, be prepared in advance, be followed, be updated, be reviewed by dietician, and meet the needs of the resident. / Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature. / Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. / Dispose of garbage and refuse properly. / Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. / Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.E
2024-10-04F0550, F0580, F0604, F0657, F0676, F0726, F0758Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. / Immediately tell the resident, the resident's doctor, and a family member of situations (injury/decline/room, etc.) that affect the resident. / Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment. / Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. / Ensure residents do not lose the ability to perform activities of daily living unless there is a medical reason. / Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being. / Implement gradual dose reductions(GDR) and non-pharmacological interventions, unless contraindicated, prior to initiating or instead of continuing psychotropic medication; and PRN orders for psychotropic medications are only used when the medication is necessary and PRN use is limited.D
2024-10-04F0911Ensure resident rooms hold no more than 4 residents; for new construction after November 28, 2016, rooms hold no more than 2 residents.B
2024-09-24F0658Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.D
2024-08-26F0658Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.E
2024-08-26F0760Ensure that residents are free from significant medication errors.D
2024-08-02F0600Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.G
2024-08-02F0609, F0610, F0684, F0689Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. / Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. / Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. / Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.D
2024-04-18F0657, F0880Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. / Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.D
2024-04-12F0600Protect each resident from all types of abuse such as physical, mental, sexual abuse, physical punishment, and neglect by anybody.D
2024-03-28F0689Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.E
2024-03-28F0550, F0609Honor the resident's right to a dignified existence, self-determination, communication, and to exercise his or her rights. / Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.D
2024-02-05F0609Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.D
2023-10-16F0689Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents.D
2023-10-02F0812, F0814Procure food from sources approved or considered satisfactory and store, prepare, distribute and serve food in accordance with professional standards. / Dispose of garbage and refuse properly.F
2023-10-02F0557, F0558, F0609, F0610, F0657, F0726, F0804, F0809, F0880, F0921Honor the resident's right to be treated with respect and dignity and to retain and use personal possessions. / Reasonably accommodate the needs and preferences of each resident. / Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities. / Respond appropriately to all alleged violations. / Develop the complete care plan within 7 days of the comprehensive assessment; and prepared, reviewed, and revised by a team of health professionals. / Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being. / Ensure food and drink is palatable, attractive, and at a safe and appetizing temperature. / Ensure meals and snacks are served at times in accordance with resident’s needs, preferences, and requests. Suitable and nourishing alternative meals and snacks must be provided for residents who want to eat at non-traditional times or outside of scheduled meal times. / Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program. / Make sure that the nursing home area is safe, easy to use, clean and comfortable for residents, staff and the public.E
2023-10-02F0563, F0604, F0684, F0689, F0761, F0810Honor the resident's right to receive visitors of his or her choosing, at the time of his or her choosing. / Ensure that each resident is free from the use of physical restraints, unless needed for medical treatment. / Provide appropriate treatment and care according to orders, resident’s preferences and goals. / Ensure that a nursing home area is free from accident hazards and provides adequate supervision to prevent accidents. / Ensure drugs and biologicals used in the facility are labeled in accordance with currently accepted professional principles; and all drugs and biologicals must be stored in locked compartments, separately locked, compartments for controlled drugs. / Provide special eating equipment and utensils for residents who need them and appropriate assistance.D
2023-10-02F0912Provide rooms that are at least 80 square feet per resident in multiple rooms and 100 square feet for single resident rooms.B
2023-09-14F0880Provide and implement an infection prevention and control program.E
2023-08-22F0656, F0658Develop and implement a complete care plan that meets all the resident's needs, with timetables and actions that can be measured. / Ensure services provided by the nursing facility meet professional standards of quality.D
2023-08-21F0609Timely report suspected abuse, neglect, or theft and report the results of the investigation to proper authorities.D

Why was LAKEWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER fined 3 times?

DateTypeAmount
2025-12-18Fine$87,071
2025-06-13Fine$14,901
2024-08-02Fine$26,625

Has LAKEWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER had payment denied by Medicare more than once?

Payment denial startLength in days
2026-01-2235
2025-07-1013

How is LAKEWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER staffed relative to the CA average?

MeasureThis facilityCA average
Total nurse staffing hours per resident per day4.153434.51570
Average number of residents per day281.287.9

Who owns LAKEWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER, and what chain is it in?

LAKEWOOD HEALTHCARE CENTER is registered with CMS as For profit - Corporation, operates under the legal business name THE HEALTHCARE CENTER OF DOWNEY LLC and belongs to the PACIFIC HEALTHCARE HOLDINGS chain.

RoleOwnerAssociation date
5% OR GREATER DIRECT OWNERSHIP INTERESTRECHNITZ LAKEWOOD GPsince 10/01/2011
DIRECT OWNERSHIP INTERESTRECHNITZ, SHLOMOsince 10/01/2011
OPERATIONAL/MANAGERIAL CONTROLCORPORATE INTERFACE SERVICES LLC, ROCKPORT ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, LLC, ENRIQUEZ, ALICE, LING, ARNOLD, RECHNITZ, SHLOMOsince 03/18/2024
ADP OF THE SNFCORPORATE INTERFACE SERVICES LLC, ROCKPORT ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES, LLC, ENRIQUEZ, ALICE, LING, ARNOLD, RECHNITZ, SHLOMOsince 04/15/2019

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